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Carlo Acutis is pictured in an undated photo.

Pope Francis says he'll canonize Acutis, Frassati, host meeting on child's rights

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Pope Francis announced that he will canonize Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati next year and that the Vatican will host a world meeting on the rights of the child Feb. 3.

Accompanied by her children, Yahel and Naveh, Adi Shoham holds a poster of her husband, Tal Shoham, 39, during a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican Nov. 14, 2024. The Shoham family had been among those taken hostage by Palestinian militants Oct. 7, 2023.

Pope Francis meets Israeli citizens freed from captivity in Gaza

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Pope Francis met with a group of Israelis and their family members who were freed after being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas and other Palestinian militants.

Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, delivers the homily during the Good Friday Liturgy of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican March 29, 2024.

Italian Capuchin succeeds Cardinal Cantalamessa as papal preacher

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Pope Francis appointed a new preacher of the papal household: a 53-year-old Italian Capuchin priest who studied computer science and mathematics and discovered his vocation while reading a free copy of St. Matthew's Gospel on the subway.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, leaves the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall after a working session of the assembly of the Synod of Bishops with Pope Francis at the Vatican Oct. 6, 2023.

Top Vatican official hopes Trump will promote peace, national unity

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The Vatican secretary of state said his prayer for Donald J. Trump is that God would grant him wisdom "because that is the main virtue of those who govern according to the Bible."

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, president of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, speaks at a news conference at the Vatican Oct. 29, 2024, about the commission’s first pilot annual report, which highlights safeguarding progress, gaps and recommendations for over 20 church-based entities.

Papal commission releases report highlighting progress in safeguarding

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Highlighting progress made in safeguarding and recommendations for rectifying ongoing gaps, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors dedicated its first annual report to all victims and survivors of sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church.

Newly ordained deacons pray during their ordination Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 3, 2024.

Vatican statistics show decline in baptisms, clergy, religious, worldwide

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The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to Vatican statistics.

Pope Francis shares a laugh with Nasser al-Kidwa, the former Palestinian foreign minister, second from left, and Ehud Olmert, former Israeli prime minister, third from left, and their entourage in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican Oct. 17, 2024.

Pope Francis meets former Israeli and Palestinian officials promoting peace

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Pope Francis met a former prime minister of Israel and a former Palestinian foreign minister who believe they have a workable peace plan for the Holy Land.

Under the altar at the Centre Marie-Léonie Paradis in Sherbrooke, Que., lies a glass “kind of coffin-reliquary,” according to the centre, of the soon-to-be canonized and Quebec-born Mother Marie-Léonie Paradis.

Blessed Paradis among 14 new saints

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The celebration of World Mission Sunday will see Pope Francis declare Canadian Blessed Marie-Léonie Paradis, founder of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, and 13 others as new saints.

Pope Francis greets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Vatican Oct. 11, 2024.

Pope Francis and Zelenskyy discuss repatriation of Ukrainian captives

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Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met for the third time since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, focusing their discussion on the repatriation of Ukrainian nationals held in Russian captivity.

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, attends the opening session of the Synod of Bishops in the Vatican's Paul VI Audience Hall Oct. 2, 2023.

Vatican doctrinal chief tells synod it's not time for women deacons

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"Rushing" to open the diaconate to women in the Catholic Church would short-circuit a necessary reflection on the relationship between ordained ministry and charismatic leadership, particularly as it impacts the participation of women in the church, said the head of the Vatican's doctrinal office.

Pope Francis gives his homily during a penitential liturgy Oct. 1, 2024, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on the eve of the opening of the second session of the Synod of Bishops on synodality.

Church must recognize, ask pardon for its sins, Pope Francis says before synod

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The Catholic Church cannot be credible in its mission of proclaiming Christ unless it acknowledges its mistakes and bends down "to heal the wounds we have caused by our sins," Pope Francis said.

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